[mistercorporate]

Who cares about national narratives. Narratives are a means to control a population to achieve certain objectives by those in power. We are a happy, comfortable and reliable society, which ultimately is what most countries strive to achieve.

Countries grasp for national narratives when they stumble from the path to a happy society, by trying to reestablish past habits in the vain hope it will get them back on that path and relive those past glories.

Canada until very recently was a mediocre country with a very average lifestyle, low self confidence, and below average culture when it came to fun and inspiring activities even though it was resource rich. Most immigrants and even native born people left to greener and warmer pastures given half a chance.

One day, when we lose our quality of life, people will nostalgically try to recreate the habits and outer trappings of our current civilization and create a dogmatic national narrative they will militantly try to recreate, because this right now is our golden age, it was never better than this.

People in early 20th century America were not focused on building walls near Mexico, envirionmentalism, or gun laws, or respect for the flag and the president. They were too busy enjoying the good life, they were living their very own golden age. It's is only now they're in decline that they long for their past, and strive to maintain privileges and cultural habits as unassailable eternal cultural traits. The reality is their golden age was the result not of the culture of its time, but of a host of historical factors (unrelated to culture) that allowed their majority community a temporary bubble of extreme prosperity and dynamism. Trump, as the outer embodiment of those supposed cultural traits, exploited this delusion to gain personal power, masterfully.